Big sporting events were useful cover for cheating
James the private investigator returned as the World Cup approached.
Scott wanted to know whether a major sporting event changed James’s workload.
James said matches could provide useful excuses.
Somebody could claim they were spending hours in a pub watching football, travelling to a game or meeting friends, creating long periods away from home which were difficult for a partner to verify.
That reminded him of a rugby case.
The iPad had already made the wife suspicious
The client had seen messages connected to her husband appearing on an iPad.
They were flirtatious enough to make her believe an old pattern of cheating had started again.
She hired James to find out what was happening.
The husband was going to an England rugby match.
James needed to blend in.
He bought an England rugby shirt and went with the crowd despite not being particularly knowledgeable about the sport.
Scott loved the image of a professional investigator carefully watching the people around him so he knew when to cheer.
James admitted he sometimes reacted a moment later than everybody else because he was copying them.
He could look like an enthusiastic supporter as long as nobody asked him a detailed rugby question.
The match was only the beginning
James followed the husband after the game.
The man eventually went to a cheap hotel with another woman before returning to the pub.
That gave James the evidence the client had expected.
What surprised Scott was the client’s reaction.
She was not primarily shocked that her husband was cheating.
She had suspected that already and appeared almost resigned to it.
What she particularly wanted to know was who the woman was and what she looked like.
The case therefore became less about proving an impossible truth and more about identifying the person involved.
“Local famous” did not always mean nationally famous
The show also began discussing people who were famous within one town without being widely known elsewhere.
One caller from Cheltenham described a boyfriend with a reality-TV connection and a substantial social-media following.
He had appeared as an ordinary dater on *Celebs Go Dating*, and locally the pair attracted enough recognition for her to joke that they were their area’s own reality-TV couple.
She was also unusually organised about Instagram, describing the importance of posting at useful times in the evening when followers were online.
Scott liked the category.
Every town seemed to have somebody who was not conventionally famous but was recognised at bars, clubs, gyms or around the high street.
James, meanwhile, had spent the same programme demonstrating the opposite skill: how to be surrounded by thousands of people and make sure nobody noticed you at all.
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